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This week we grapple with one of Tony's problematic faves: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her love of child labor Also: Kaepernick is back in the news after sharing a piece of his new autobiography detailing a racially insensitive comment made to him by his adopted white mother. We talk about the relationship between white parents and children of color and address the right wing's overtly racist backlash to the story. Finally: a bowling rock super-spreader supergroup forms made up of band members who defiantly refused to be vaccinated. We listen to their jaunty tunes and watch a maddening interview with Tim Pool. Music: Rival Schools - The Switch Victory Over The Sun - Alveromancy
Colin Kaepernick blasted after accusing adoptive white parents of quote perpetuating racism.
MMA fighter special forces vet Tim Kennedy hammers Colin Kaepernick for accusing white adoptive parents of racism.
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who's made a career post-football by bemoaning what he sees as systemic racism in America, accused his adoptive white parents of racism, prompting MMA fighter and Special Forces vet Tim Kennedy to fire a withering response.
It's really not that great.
Interviewed on CBS Mornings regarding his new autobiographical graphic novel, Change the Game, Kaepernick stated, Growing up, I was, I think, still am a pretty introverted person.
I know my parents loved me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through.
I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home and how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated.
In the graphic novel, Kaepernick writes that he wanted cornrows like his idol, Alan Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers.
Prompting his white adoptive mother to ask, Quote, He's getting what roles?
Ugh.
And then, quote, oh, your hair's not professional, Kaepernick told Adriana Diaz of CBS Mornings, quote, oh, you look like a little thug.
Quote, your mom said that to you, Diaz asked, shocked.
Yeah.
And those become spaces where it's like, okay, how do I navigate this situation now?
Kaepernick replied, but it also has informed why I have my hair long today.
Yeah.
I mean, it's funny.
Cause like, I mean, that was a conversation amongst like the, and it still is a conversation even amongst the black community.
But, um, even when you're a white parent to a black child, you still have lanes you're supposed to stay in.
And the one lane they tell you really not to veer out of the one that's really easy to kind of mind yours is the hair.
Like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
I mean, I'm, I'm reading this and I'm like, yeah, that's like a racist thing to say.
You said he had, you said he, he was a little thug and it's like, this, this is like an old opinion of mine and maybe it's, you know, feel free to push back on it, Tony.
Um, but like, this is what I mean when I say that like white people have got to stop thinking that being racist is the end of the world.
Yes.
Because everybody makes mistakes including your own parents and he still has good things to say about his parents and he still loves them and appreciates them but he's like yeah they said this mindless racist shit to me too like every like every white people every white person who doesn't know better essentially which is I guess an easy way of letting people off the hook but like Um, a more ignorant white person would say.
And it's like, yeah, telling your little kid that they're like a thug.
It's like, maybe you didn't mean it like that or whatever, but it's like, how else is it fucking sound, man?
Yeah.
I mean, you didn't realize that it does sound different coming out of your mouth than does, like, Bill Cosby's mouth, who you heard it from, because Bill Cosby was the one saying things like that.
Well, it's still racist when Bill Cosby says it.
No, absolutely.
You know what I'm saying?
But it still is, like, different.
It's, like, even more different, you know?
Yeah.
And like you said, it's not the end of the world.
And I think that's what people do need to realize is like a lot of the racism that people experience and people put, you know, especially experience.
But a lot of the racism that people like partake in and are party to.
It is because like.
Man, it was set up like it was set up that way.
You have you didn't even realize you were doing it.
It's like I talk about soft racism is my favorite thing.
They're not being malicious.
They have no idea they're doing it.
But yeah, when you like.
When you do a silly cover of Boys in the Hood, it is a form of racism.
It's not the end of the world, but that is what it is.
You gotta learn from it.
You gotta take some notes.
My sweet white mom has done a ton of that.
She's come so far.
It's not the end of the world.
It's what you do with that, and how you respond to that, and how you grow from that.
Yeah, that's all he says, right?
That's like a blurb from the book that he gives in the interview.
The Tim Kennedy, the fucking smackdown from veteran and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy is, I bleached my hair when I was in high school and my dad told me I looked like an idiot.
He told me that nobody would hire me.
He told me that colleges would laugh At me during interviews.
I guess he was just perpetuating racism and didn't want the best for me.
Again, you have no idea what racism is.
It's like the dumbest possible response.
Oh, my dad wouldn't let me get blonde hair.
I guess he's racist too, huh?
What?
Yeah.
What are you fucking talking?
Against white people?
Against punk rock?
You know, racist against punk rock?
Thought about that?
Um.
Hey, don't call me white.
You know?
Straight up.
But also, okay, so my dad told me I look like an idiot.
Okay, so that's his opinion.
Then he also says nobody would hire me.
Colleges would laugh at me during interviews.
You gotta have pretty bad grades, I think, to get laughed at for blonde hair.
What are you talking about?
Um, but yeah, so many good responses like this, um, and, and let's, let's get into them here.
Uncle Louie B on Instagram, in the Breitbart responses, I saw him say, uh, dot, dot, dot, ha, ha, ha, ha.
My son wants to get a mullet.
I said, no.
Does that mean I am racist towards white people?
No, it means you're classist, Uncle Louie B, actually.
Yes, it does.
It does.
Classist, and that could be against any race.
No, and also you're just paying attention because you do realize that all these like all these like different tax bracket has gone ahead and taken on the mullet as like a cultural signifier.
And they're not really about it.
They're not really about it.
Does that mean I'm racist toward white people?
He wanted to get a mohawk, and I said, no.
Does that mean I am racist towards Native Americans?
Hey, at least he knows.
At least he knows the roots.
No, maybe you appreciate Native Americans and that's why you were like, no, that's actually cultural appropriation for you to have a Mohawk.
That would be so like, that's, yeah, Uncle Louie's a little woke over here.
I like it.
Was he upset?
Yes.
Not once did my son accuse me of being racist.
Dot, dot, dot.
He understood I am his parent.
Dot, dot, dot.
Lot of Mohawks.
The Mohawk came up a lot in people's responses to this.
